Download Memory Study Guide: Chapter 7

Memory Study Guide: Chapter 7
Pages 153-173
1.) ______________________ is the process in which we recall experiences,
information, and skills.
2.) ______________________ is the memory process by which we maintain encoded
information over a period of time.
3.) Information stored as a _______________________ code is stored according to
meaning.
4.) ______________________ is the memory process that translates information into
a form in which it can be stored.
5.) _____________________________ memories are recalled better when the mood
in which they are originally encoded is recreated.
6.) ______________________ memories are examples of episodic memories that are
recalled in great detail.
7.) ______________________ is the memory process that allows people to locate
stored information and return it to conscious thought.
8.) The method of ______________________ organizes items into familiar units so
they can be remembered more easily.
9.) Working memory is another name for ______________________ memory.
10.)
_______________________ memory consists of general knowledge.
11.)
The skills for riding a bicycle or throwing a baseball are stored as
________________________ memories.
12.)
Facts that are learned at school (Trivia Game) become part of the
_______________________ memory.
13.)
Flashbulb memories are so vivid because they ______________ events
with __________________ meanings.
14.)
Computers and people both handle information using the processes of
_____________________, ______________________, and
____________________________.
15.)
A visual code helps a person remember a fact by creating a
_______________ picture.
16.)
One draw back to maintenance rehearsal is that it does not connect
memorized information to _________________ learning.
17.)
Studying for a test in the same room that you will take the test in results in
a better grade because of __________________ dependent memories.
18.)
The first stage of memory is ___________________ memory.
19.)
Information in sort-term memory last for several __________________.
20.)
The average person can hold _________________ pieces of information
in their short-term memory.
21.)
In order to remember information for a long period of time, facts must be
transferred from __________________________ memory to
________________________ memory.
22.)
We can more easily remember bits of information by organizing them into
mental representations of the world called _____________________.
23.)
The easiest of the three basic memory tasks is _____________________.
24.)
Most people forget things because of the normal processes of
_____________________ and _________________________.
25.)
According to Sigmund Freud, repression is a reaction to painful and
__________________________ memories.
26.)
A person trying to learn the vocabulary of a foreign language can
remember the foreign words by _________________________ rehearsal,
_________________________ rehearsal and using paired
________________________.
27.)
Infantile amnesia is probably the result of the immaturity of the
______________________, underdeveloped ___________________ abilities,
and the present-oriented ___________________ of infants.
28.)
_____________________________________________ is when you
know something but you can’t verbalize it.